Simon Musall

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Simon Musall is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Musall has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 19 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Simon Musall's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (16 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (13 papers) and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (9 papers). Simon Musall is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (16 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (13 papers) and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (9 papers). Simon Musall collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Simon Musall's co-authors include Anne K. Churchland, Matthew T. Kaufman, Steven Gluf, Ashley Juavinett, Wolfger von der Behrens, Bruno Weber, Florent Haiss, Kevin Whittingstall, Alexander Rauch and Nikos K. Logothetis and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Chemical Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Simon Musall

26 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Single-trial neural dynamics are dominated by richly varied movements
    2019 557 citations Simon Musall, Matthew T. Kaufman et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Musall Germany 14 877 567 111 93 77 27 1.2k
Charu Bai Reddy United Kingdom 7 949 1.1× 564 1.0× 131 1.2× 63 0.7× 44 0.6× 7 1.1k
Ning-long Xu China 14 1.1k 1.3× 986 1.7× 180 1.6× 119 1.3× 95 1.2× 22 1.4k
Ashley Juavinett United States 12 1.0k 1.2× 680 1.2× 194 1.7× 57 0.6× 80 1.0× 21 1.3k
Kayvon Daie United States 12 949 1.1× 639 1.1× 174 1.6× 148 1.6× 80 1.0× 15 1.3k
Jasper Poort United Kingdom 14 1.6k 1.8× 740 1.3× 165 1.5× 70 0.8× 58 0.8× 18 1.7k
Jeffrey E. Markowitz United States 16 573 0.7× 586 1.0× 123 1.1× 113 1.2× 39 0.5× 21 1.2k
Sue Ann Koay United States 10 760 0.9× 618 1.1× 213 1.9× 54 0.6× 99 1.3× 13 1.2k
Emmanouil Froudarakis United States 14 882 1.0× 603 1.1× 174 1.6× 65 0.7× 46 0.6× 22 1.2k
Selmaan N. Chettih United States 11 525 0.6× 372 0.7× 87 0.8× 46 0.5× 94 1.2× 12 769
Lacey Kitch United States 7 991 1.1× 943 1.7× 138 1.2× 47 0.5× 132 1.7× 9 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Musall

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Musall

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simon Musall. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simon Musall based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Simon Musall. Simon Musall is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Musall, Simon, et al.. (2025). Broadband visual stimuli improve neuronal representation and sensory perception. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2957–2957. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Hangyu, Vanessa Maybeck, Dirk Mayer, et al.. (2025). Neural vs Neuromorphic Interfaces: Where Are We Standing?. Chemical Reviews. 125(19). 9092–9139. 2 indexed citations
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Lubrano, Claudia, et al.. (2024). Enzyme‐Mediated Organic Neurohybrid Synapses. Advanced Materials. 36(49). e2409614–e2409614. 8 indexed citations
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Musall, Simon, et al.. (2024). An organic brain-inspired platform with neurotransmitter closed-loop control, actuation and reinforcement learning. Materials Horizons. 11(12). 2865–2874. 8 indexed citations
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Musall, Simon, et al.. (2024). Technical survey of end-to-end signal processing in BCIs using invasive MEAs. Journal of Neural Engineering. 21(5). 51003–51003. 2 indexed citations
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Musall, Simon, et al.. (2024). Highly Customizable 3D Microelectrode Arrays for In Vitro and In Vivo Neuronal Tissue Recordings. Advanced Science. 11(13). e2305944–e2305944. 29 indexed citations
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Mohan, Hemanth, Xu An, Hideki Kondo, et al.. (2023). Cortical glutamatergic projection neuron types contribute to distinct functional subnetworks. Nature Neuroscience. 26(3). 481–494. 13 indexed citations
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Kampa, Björn M., et al.. (2023). Validation of transparent and flexible neural implants for simultaneous electrophysiology, functional imaging, and optogenetics. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 11(40). 9639–9657. 6 indexed citations
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Hu, Ziheng, Yaqi Li, Gabriela Figueroa‐Miranda, et al.. (2023). Aptamer based biosensor platforms for neurotransmitters analysis. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 162. 117021–117021. 24 indexed citations
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Gemmeke, Tobias, et al.. (2023). From neuromorphic to neurohybrid: transition from the emulation to the integration of neuronal networks. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 23002–23002. 11 indexed citations
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Forró, Csaba, Simon Musall, John Linkhorst, et al.. (2023). Toward the Next Generation of Neural Iontronic Interfaces. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 12(20). e2301055–e2301055. 6 indexed citations
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Musall, Simon, et al.. (2022). A flexible Python-based touchscreen chamber for operant conditioning reveals improved visual perception of cardinal orientations in mice. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 16. 866109–866109. 4 indexed citations
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Kampa, Björn M., et al.. (2021). Minimally-invasive insertion strategy and in vivo evaluation of multi-shank flexible intracortical probes. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 17 indexed citations
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Saxena, Shreya, Ian Kinsella, Simon Musall, et al.. (2020). Localized semi-nonnegative matrix factorization (LocaNMF) of widefield calcium imaging data. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(4). e1007791–e1007791. 40 indexed citations
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Whiteway, Matthew R, Shreya Saxena, Taiga Abe, et al.. (2019). BehaveNet: nonlinear embedding and Bayesian neural decoding of behavioral videos. Neural Information Processing Systems. 32. 15680–15691. 31 indexed citations
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Musall, Simon, Matthew T. Kaufman, Ashley Juavinett, Steven Gluf, & Anne K. Churchland. (2019). Single-trial neural dynamics are dominated by richly varied movements. Nature Neuroscience. 22(10). 1677–1686. 557 indexed citations breakdown →
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Musall, Simon, Anne E Urai, David Sussillo, & Anne K. Churchland. (2019). Harnessing behavioral diversity to understand neural computations for cognition. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 58. 229–238. 31 indexed citations
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Wahl, Anna-Sophia, Uta Büchler, André W. Brändli, et al.. (2017). Optogenetically stimulating intact rat corticospinal tract post-stroke restores motor control through regionalized functional circuit formation. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1187–1187. 64 indexed citations
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Musall, Simon, Florent Haiss, Bruno Weber, & Wolfger von der Behrens. (2015). Deviant Processing in the Primary Somatosensory Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 27(1). bhv283–bhv283. 37 indexed citations
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Musall, Simon, et al.. (2012). Effects of Neural Synchrony on Surface EEG. Cerebral Cortex. 24(4). 1045–1053. 94 indexed citations

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